Campus round-up
Shrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of East Anglia, the grassland...
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Sex and Arab sensibility
Shahidha Bari considers an exploration of desire and denial amid Egypt’s shifting sands
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Debased intellectual currency
Joanna Williams commends a rigorous analysis of the impact of funding changes on the sector
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American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
In May 1918, in Brooks County, Georgia, Hayes Turner, a black farm labourer, was lynched by a white mob seeking vengeance for the death of Hampton Smith, a white farmer and racist. The fact that...
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Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering by Clive Hamilton
Most activists and commentators feel glumly pessimistic because of the lack of progress in climate change negotiations. In the meantime, global carbon emissions continue and even rise, atmospheric...
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Think of the children
Deborah Bowman praises a compassionate and informed look at paediatric ethics
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Speaking of Race and Class: The Student Experience at an Elite College by Elizabeth Aries, with Richard Berman
The US higher education system is massive but pyramidal. Almost anyone can go to college, but only a few can attend the nation’s best institutions. And just like in other countries with highly...
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Image Warfare in the War on Terror by Nathan Roger
This new century has seen an explosion in communication technologies among consumers worldwide. But according to Nathan Roger, the true import of this revolution has yet to be fully understood by...
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UK R&D spending: Less on swords, more on ploughshares
Spending on defence research and development in the UK has declined by 57 per cent since 1989, data from the Office for National Statistics show.Figures in the ONS statistical bulletin UK Gross...
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School of Advanced Study’s Kain: we’re able to take lead
Dean looks to humanities future after Hefce funding renewal
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News in brief - 28 March 2013
United StatesWell-funded Korea move for UtahA US university’s trustees have approved a plan to open a branch campus in South Korea. With the support of subsidies from the South Korean government, the...
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News in brief - 28 March 2013
Widening accessExtended pathways to lawA programme to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to become lawyers is being extended thanks to a £1.2 million grant from a charitable foundation...
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Values are at the heart of social science: John Brewer
Ex-president of British Sociological Association argues for renewal of disciplines
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Odds and quads - 28 March 2013
These are just two of the plant samples, now held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, that Carl Peter Thunberg brought back from his pioneering expedition to Japan in 1775.